Crossword clues for magnitude
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnitude \Mag"ni*tude\, n. [L. magnitudo, from magnus great. See Master, and cf. Maxim.]
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Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breadth, and thickness.
Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to them all.
--Sir I. Newton. (Geom.) That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.
Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.
Greatness; grandeur. ``With plain, heroic magnitude of mind.''
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Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.
The magnitude of his designs.
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(Astron.) See magnitude of a star, below. Apparent magnitude
(Opt.), the angular breadth of an object viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the observer; -- called also apparent diameter.
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(Astron.) Same as magnitude of a star, below.
Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a star with respect to brightness. About twenty very bright stars are said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth magnitude being just visible to the naked eye; called also visual magnitude, apparent magnitude, and simply magnitude. Stars observable only in the telescope are classified down to below the twelfth magnitude. The difference in actual brightness between magnitudes is now specified as a factor of 2.512, i.e. the difference in brightness is 100 for stars differing by five magnitudes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "greatness of size or character," from Latin magnitudo "greatness, bulk, size," from magnus "great" (see magnate) + -tudo, suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives and participles (see -tude). Meaning "size, extent" is from early 15c. Of stars, "brightness," from 1640s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable countable English) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something. 2 (context countable English) An order of magnitude. 3 (context mathematics English) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically 4 (context mathematics English) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm. 5 (context astronomy English) The apparent brightness of a star (on a negative, logarithmic scale); apparent magnitude 6 (context seismology English) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
WordNet
n. the property of relative size or extent; "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"
a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10 [syn: order of magnitude]
relative importance; "a problem of the first magnitude"
Wikipedia
Magnitude may refer to:
In mathematics:
- Magnitude (mathematics), the relative size of an object
- Norm (mathematics), a term for the size or length of a vector
- Scalar (mathematics), a quantity defined only by its magnitude
- Euclidean vector, a quantity defined by both its magnitude and its direction
- Order of magnitude, the class of scale having a fixed value ratio to the preceding class
In astronomy:
- Magnitude (astronomy), a measure of brightness and brightness differences used in astronomy
- Apparent magnitude, the calibrated apparent brightness of a celestial object
- Absolute magnitude, the brightness of a celestial object corrected to a standard luminosity distance
- Instrumental magnitude, the uncalibrated apparent magnitude of a celestial object
- Photographic magnitude, the brightness of a celestial object corrected for photographic sensitivity, symbol m
- Magnitude of eclipse or geometric magnitude, the size of the eclipsed part of the Sun during a solar eclipse or the Moon during a lunar eclipse
As an earthquake unit of measure:
- Richter magnitude scale, the energy of an earthquake
- Moment magnitude scale, based on the seismic moment
- Surface wave magnitude, based on surface waves
In popular culture:
- Magnitude (Community), a recurring character from the television series Community
In mathematics, magnitude is the size of a mathematical object, a property by which the object can be compared as larger or smaller than other objects of the same kind. More formally, an object's magnitude is an ordering (or ranking) of the class of objects to which it belongs.
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Usage examples of "magnitude".
In here, his body motionless, his affinity expanding his consciousness through bitek processors and incorporated brains, his mentality was raised by an order of magnitude.
And suppose it to be true that the Soul is the appraiser, using Magnitude as the measuring standard, how does this help us to the conception of Time?
Big Screen was like an electroshock cattle prod hammered down the earthquake faults of human identity which ripple and shudder at magnitude ten and slip and slide and pulverize and resettle into new and rarely improved and NEVER stable identities and wait for the next inevitable twitch and shudder that will send reality sprawling once again like pieces of ice flying around a high-speed blender and create a new and even more unstable formation and reinforce the creeping paranoia that has flooded the dazed soul that WAS you but has become something else, something different THAT was what FILM could do.
Knapp has shown that they were protracted to include matters relating to Bowring and long posterior to the period covered by the autobiography, and that the magnitude of these additions compelled him to divide the book in two.
There is here none of the homogeneity which is the property of magnitude, and the necessary condition of measurement, giving a view of the less in the bosom of the more.
I hoped in 1942, or even if it had never been tried, the attempt to cross the Channel in 1943 would have led to a bloody defeat of the first magnitude, with measureless reactions upon the result of the war.
The micrometeoroid count alone was several orders of magnitude higher than in open space.
A Swiss researcher, Isabelle Schib, had taken the old models of morphogenesis that had led to software like Zelda, refined the technique by several orders of magnitude, and applied it to human genetic data.
And even when recognized at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
Ascertain from statistics the small proportion of the region which has yet been brought into cultivation, and also the large and rapidly increasing amount of products, and we shall be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the prospect presented.
The chief obstacle in the way of this ideal is Anglo-Saxon prudery, and, perhaps, the reader will not be persuaded that education for parenthood is our greatest educational need to-day, more especially for girls, until he or she has been persuaded of the magnitude of the preventable evils which flow from our present neglect of this matter.
Furthermore, for maximum efficiency operating speeds and temperatures whole orders of magnitude greater than the piston engine were needed.
The most relaxed Preservationist is an order of magnitude more security-conscious than our most diligent supporter.
We reflect within ourselves there is life, there is intellect, not in extension but as power without magnitude, issue of Authentic Being which is power self-existing, no vacuity but a thing most living and intellective--nothing more living, more intelligent, more real--and producing its effect by contact and in the ratio of the contact, closely to the close, more remotely to the remote.
With numbers: that is, with magnitudes and quantification, with all that scientific observations are about.